"inflation" in the noun sense
1. inflation, rising prices
a general and progressive increase in prices
"in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"
2. inflation
cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
3. ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflation
lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
4. inflation
the act of filling something with air
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